Accounting Operations Specialist

Hours & Compensation

Permanent Full-Time

Hours: 37.5 hours per week | Monday to Friday with occasional evenings or weekends to meet deadlines

Pay Range: Salary Grade 3 | $60,761.96 - $68,388.12

Location: Hybrid | 153 Frederick Street, Kitchener

Benefits: Registered Pension Plan (4.5% Employer contribution) | Extended Health and Dental Benefits | Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) | Life insurance | 3 weeks vacation | Employee Assistance Program (EAP) | Paid Sick Time

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In this Role, you will contribute to the Community by ...

strengthening the organization's financial processes, supporting transparency, accountability and effective service delivery.

Day-to-day of this role, you will:

• Coordinate and track month-end close activities and prepare accurate journal entries to support timely financial reporting
• Support bi-weekly payroll processing, including timecard reviews, reporting, and issue resolution
• Support accounts payable and receivable, monitoring aging balances and resolving discrepancies
• Serve as back-up across payrolll, AP and AR to ensure continuity of finance operations
• Lead audit coordination and maintain SOPs, identifying opportunities to improve financial processes

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Please apply if you have ...

• Experience in accounting, preferably in the NFP sector
• Solid working knowledge of non-profit accounting principles, including fund accounting
• Experience with Canadian payroll legislation (an asset)
• Strong organization skills and ability to manage multiple concurrent deadlines
• Demonstrated ability to document and maintain standard operating procedures and support process improvement initiatives
• Strong commitment to accuracy and integrity

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Mandatory Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related field
• Current Vulnerable Sector Check or Criminal Record Check document

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About YWCA Canada and YWCA K-W

When you choose to work with the YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo you aren’t just joining an organization, you are joining a movement!

YWCA Canada is a secular, registered charity and the country’s oldest and largest women’s rights organization, driving change for over 150 years. The National Office strengthens the work of 29 independent local member associations across Canada by providing tools, training, national convening, and capacity-building. Through research, governance support, professional development, and advocacy coordination, YWCAs deliver impact in their communities while growing the collective power of the national movement focused on ending gender-based violence; advocating for affordable housing that meets the needs of women and gender-diverse people; challenging systemic barrier to economic equity; championing childcare and women’s well-being; empowering diverse young leaders; as well as informing and shaping the feminist future.

The YWCA Kitchener-Waterloo is committed to developing an organization that is reflective of and responsive to the diversity of Kitchener-Waterloo, in which all people are respected and valued. A full Diversity & Inclusion Statement can be viewed at https://ywkw.ca/diversity-inclusion-statement.

Accommodation requests can be emailed to [email protected]

YWKW does not use artificial intelligence to screen, assess, or select applicants; all resumes submitted are reviewed manually by hiring managers

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Company

YW Kitchener-Waterloo

Location

153 Frederick Street, Kitchener Ontario

Opening Date

Jun 25, 2026